novelaction Chapter 1133 People on the Mountain
Chapter 1133 People on the Mountain
The group went forward.
There are still people in the field, old and young, turning the soil.
When they saw Wu Lazi and the others, they all smiled and called him the boss.
Seeing Zhou Guo, he was very curious, "So the boss can also make friends? Who is this young master?"
Wu Lazi felt a little embarrassed. She had been the boss for so many years, and apart from the ones she had robbed, the only person she had invited as a guest was Zhou Guo.
I don't know why, but I felt a little proud. My chest unconsciously puffed up a little. I said, "This is a friend I just met. He is very capable, much more capable than me. Don't look down on him just because he is young."
The old man slapped his thigh and cried out, "How dare I do that? You don't even see who he is. I'm just an ordinary citizen, I don't dare to do that."
Wu Lazi put her hands on her waist and said, "Are you an ordinary citizen? You are a bandit! Okay, go to work!"
While they were arguing, Zhou Guo took another look at the surrounding fields. The fields here were not as good as the best ones, but they were still good. There were many vegetables in the fields, such as radishes, cabbages, coriander, garlic sprouts, and onions, but they were not growing well.
It's obvious that not much fertilizer has been applied.
Farmers usually apply fertilizer to grain fields. For vegetable fields like this one, they just burn some wood ash as a base and bring back some rotten leaves and soil from the mountains, and that's considered fertilizer. But no one is willing to apply real fertilizer.
There are many young children in the village, playing in front of and behind the houses and in the fields. From time to time, you can see people carrying firewood back from the mountains.
Apart from the very old people and young children, there were few people wandering around outside. They were either working in the fields or in the mountains, or doing sewing, mending, dismantling and repairing at home. The people in this village were quite hardworking.
There aren't many elderly people like this who just sit around doing nothing.
Along the way, everyone they met greeted Wu Lazi, whether they were adults or children.
She thought this place didn't look like a bandit's den, but rather like a village.
As you approach the small courtyard in the middle, you can hear the faint sound of reading.
Zhou Guo listened attentively.
Seeing that she was still, Wu Lazi pointed to another small courtyard not far away and said, "The children are learning to read with the teacher there. They have two hours of classes every day. After elementary school, they help with housework at home."
Zhou Guo asked: "How much do these children pay in tuition every year?"
Wu Lazi shook her head. "We didn't ask for their tuition. The village takes care of the teacher's food and drink expenses. The people in the village just need to send children of the right age here. We don't ask them for anything. Our teacher doesn't know many words."
Seeing Zhou Guo's curiosity, she asked again, "Do you want to go in and take a look?"
Zhou Guo said: "Okay, let's go and take a look."
Wu Lazi walked in front happily, "Although our children are not as good as you young masters who can recognize words from a young age, they are not bad either. They are very smart. They can recognize one word a day. The smartest ones can recognize two or three words a day. After two days, they can write."
Zhou Guo also thought it was good, "How old are the children when they learn to read?"
Wu Lazi said, "Then he has to be ten years old. He can only be sent here when he is ten years old."
Zhou Guo: “…”
After entering the yard, Wu Lazi slowed down his steps and said to her softly, "You have to be gentle. If we disturb the children or the teacher, we will be in trouble and will be scolded for a long time."
Zhou Guo was amused. "Even you, the boss, are being scolded?"
"Swearing!" Wu Lazi said with a look of pain on her face, "And he doesn't curse people like we do, like father, mother, ancestors. When he opens his mouth, it's like a monk chanting sutras, all kinds of zhiahuayea come out. It's so confusing to listen to it, you have to listen!"
Whenever she heard these words, stars started to appear before her eyes and she felt like hitting someone. It was too vicious for someone who could read to curse at others. It made people feel so angry that they wanted to die.
Standing in the yard, the sounds of reading in the house can be heard more clearly.
Zhou Guo went to the window and looked into the room, only to see that the small room was crowded with children. There was not even a table in front of them, only long benches that they had nailed themselves. On each bench, five or six children were sitting closely together.
He shook his head and recited every word of the old man.
"Great-great-grandfather..."
"Father and self..."
"My son is my son, my grandson is my grandson..."
She looked at the old gentleman. Actually, he was not that old. He looked to be in his forties. The light in the room was not very good. He was holding a book, frowning and squinting his eyes, staring at the words in the book, teaching very seriously.
Zhou Guo took a look and left, and in front of the gentleman there was a table of which the age could not be determined.
Several people returned to the small courtyard where they had been before. This was where Wu Lazi lived, and it was used as a place for living, practicing, and meeting.
She took them to a small room, which had a table and chairs, enough for about ten people to sit. It was a rare room for entertaining guests.
She took Zhou Guo to sit on the upper side, picked up the teapot on the table and poured her a cup of tea, saying, "My place is not very nice, please make do with it."
Zhou Guo looked at the teacup, which was covered with a thick layer of dust. When she touched it, several fingerprints were clearly visible.
There was dust on the table, and there was also dust on the stool under her. She looked at it and touched it before she sat down, and there was no dust at all. It seemed that someone often sat there.
I don’t know how long it has been since I last drank this tea.
Wu Lazi asked, "Can you tell me about your business?"
Zhou Guo nodded, "Of course, but are you the only one in charge of such a large village? Are there no other managers? Do you want to call others?"
Every time she had an important matter, she would call all the stewards, big and small, to discuss the matter together. For such a large village and such a serious matter, the boss could make the decision alone, but the action couldn't be done by the boss alone, right?
Even if you have three heads and six arms, you still can’t finish it.
Wu Lazi said, "We've sent people to call them, but they've all gone into the mountains and may not be back for a while. It doesn't matter, we can talk first. There are more than 20 people here anyway. You can tell us what happened and we can remember it. If each of us remembers a little, we can tell the others later."
Zhou Guo: "...Do you have a bad memory?"
He pointed to his head.
Is this possible? It doesn't seem like a job. No one can remember only a small part of something.
Wu Lazi said indifferently: "It's not good, especially the literary things, I can't remember them at all, but I can still remember the work, so I can do anything without any delay."
Zhou Guo nodded. She had no other choice. If these thousands of people joined the escort agency, the escort agency in the south would be half as active and in a few years it would be like the north.
He slowly said, "I told you before that our escort agency's headquarters is in the north, and we have been moving southwards in recent years. In the south, like Huguang, in the past two years, every prefecture has our branch, even in the faraway counties..."